Talk

Catherine [Kiran/Rin] Oliver

I am a 30 year old nonbinary person that works as a freelance writer at GeeklyRocks discussing QUILTBAG issues in popular culture and general geekery. I have additional publishing credits in Model View Culture, and the upcoming work trans_: an anthology of transgender people and the internet. I am also the PR Director at CollectQT.

I feel that often, the 'LGBT gaming' label silences and excludes non-binary individuals, transgender gamers, gamers of color that are on the MOGII spectrum, and tends to focus on white middle class gay male gamers and their issues in gaming. While this is a good 'first step/talking point' there is much more to address about the overall inclusiveness of the 'LGBT gaming' space, and how it can be a very unsafe space for many on the MOGII spectrum, despite being labelled a 'welcoming community'. How can we build safer and more inclusive online gaming communities? This short presentation will discuss that and more.

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